Rough Roads and Smooth Sailing

My slow editing, writing, and rewriting continued, but today I made it over the hump and really slammed out some pages. I know I talk a lot about the number of pages I have left, or the number I get through in a day, but it's not a quantity issue. With the revising, assuming I'm paying attention, when I make it through pages quickly it means what I'd written previously is good. Slow days indicate a lot of problems and necessary slow revisions.

I mentioned in the previous post there are two sections to the book: Before and Now. Before, being roughly present day and Now being the future. The slowness of late has been with the first few chapters of Now. The chapters set up a lot of the background (nuts and bolts sort of stuff) for this future world as well as the beginning of the journey for one of the main characters. Apparently I've struggled mightily with this part. It's getting better now, but I think I'll print those chapters and give them a hand edit.

There's two main characters in the Now section and I've reached the point where both are active in the story and I find the reading and writing much smoother and enjoyable. One of the problems before the second character joins is the lack of dialogue and the amount of information the reader needs to understand what is going on. I want to get into the story quicker, but I need to set up the ground rules first. Previously I had distributed this throughout the novel, but my editor advised me to front load more of it as she was confused in several places. I think with another physical print and on screen edit that section should be pretty tight.